Sprint: Sprint Nextel Corp is a telecommunications company based in Overland Park, Kansas. The company owns and operates Sprint, the third largest wireless telecommunications network in the USA after Verizon Wireless and AT&T, with over 48 million customers.Sprint is also a global internet carrier.
The Microsoft ACPI-Compliant System component provides the Microsoft ACPI Driver in the acpi.sys file. This component additionally supplies the INF (information) files, acpi.inf and machine.inf. The machine.inf file is the system-supplied INF file for a standard device.
Officially an Advanced Technology Attachment (ATA) device (evolving from the AT bus), IDE's primary contribution was building the controller into the drive itself, requiring only a simple circuit on the motherboard. The ATA Packet Interface is the version for optical and removable drives (see ATAPI).